Smoking device



v. Russo 1,849,640

SMOKING DEVICE March 15, 1932.

Filed July 8, 1931 Invenor MNQENT Russo Patented Mar. 15, 1932 UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE VINCENT RUSSO, OF ROCKAWAY BEACH, NEW YORK SMOKINGDEVICE Application led July 8, 1931. Serial No. 549,529. j

cigars, cigarettes and the like.

It is one of the objects of the present invention to provide a device ofthe aforementioned character in which means is employed for iltering orextracting impurities from the smoke which passes therethrough beforereaching the mouth of the smoker.

It is a further object of the invention, to provide a device of theaforementioned character in which the smoke is caused to take acircuitous path in its passage through the device for the purpose ofcooling the smoke.

A still further object of the invention, resides in the provision of anovel construction whereby the device may be readily taken apart andcleaned.

With the above and other objects in view, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device constructed in accordancewith the present invention especially adapted for cigarettes, saidfigure showing a cigarette in position in the end of the holder, j

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional View of the device,

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device taken at rightangles to Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a view partly in elevation and partly in longitudinalsection illustrating the interior portion of the device removed from theexterior thereof,

Figure 5 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 5 5 of Figure4, and

Figure 6 is a perspective view of a modified form of smoke filteringdevice.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, a smoking deviceconstructed in accordance with the present invention comprises an outertubular member 10 shaped to provide a mouth bit 1l through which passesa. smoke passage 12. A cigar or cigarette carrying element 13 isremovably carried by the end of the tubular member 10 opposite to themouth bitl end 11, and this element is removably att,

tached to the member 10 by means of a oint 14 which may be either of thescrew type or slip type as preferred. This outer tubular member 10 ishollowed out as illustrated at 15, and is provided with a projectingportion 16 which surrounds the entrant end of the smoke passage 12 for apurpose to be hereinafter described.

Mounted within the outer tubular member 10, there is an inner tubularmember 17 having a reduced end 18 which is adapted to surround theprojecting portion 16 and form a tight joint therewith as bestillustrated in Figures 2 and 3. The tapered portion 18 is at the rearend of the member 17, and at its for- Y.

ward end it is rounded as indicated at 19. Mounted within the tubularmember 17, there is a'tubular member 20 and said tubu lar member 2() isprovided with vanes or similar walls 21 which space it from the innerwall of the tubular member 17 to provide upper and lower smoke passages22 and 23 re* spectively.` At its rear end this inner member 20 has anupstanding wall 24 which prevents the smoke from passing from the upperpassage 22 directly to the interior of the member 17 and also serveswith the vanes or iianges 21 to cause the smoke to pass to the forwardportions of the tubular member 17. An opening 26 is formed at the rearend of the inner member 20 and this opening 2G provides an eXit openingfor the smoke which passes through the inner tubular member 20. Theinner tubular member passes through the rounded end 19 of the tubularmember 17 and projects therebeyond as indicated at 28 and the outer endof this extension 28 is open for the purpose of receiving a projectingportion 29 which extends rearwardly from the cigarV or cigarettereceiving recess 30 of the member 18 as indicated at 31 in Figures 2 and3.

A smoke purifying element 35 is employed and this element may be formedfrom any suitable material such as cotton or the like which will performthe function of absorbing moisture and extracting impurities from thesmoke as it passes through the tubular member 20.

The device operates in the following manner:

With the several parts in their assembled position as illustrated inFigures 2 and 3, the smoke passes through the inner tubular member 2Oand is discharged therefrom through the opening 26 into the upper smokepassage 22. The partitions or vanes 21 cause the smoke to pass forwardlyin the smoke passage 22 to the forward end of the tubular member 17where it passes through openings 40 to the smoke passage 23 and thenceto the tubular member 17 and through the smoke passage 12 to the mouthof the smoker.

Thus it will be apparent that the invention provides a device in whichthe impurities are extracted from the smoke and in which the smoke iscaused to take a circuitous path for the purpose of cooling the same.

The device may be employed without the inner tubular members 17 and 21,and in this form of the invention, the smoke purifying element in theform of a flat disk Ll5 is inserted in the device and secured inposition by means of the member 13, the element 415 being clampedbetween the inner end of the element 13 and the shoulder 42 of the outertubular member 10.

hile the invention has been herein illustrated in a preferred form, itis to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to thespecific construction herein shown, and that it may be practiced inother forms without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and what itis desired to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A smoking device comprising an outer member having a bit and a smokepassage formed therethrough, a tubular member mounted within said outermember and having communication at its rear end with said smoke passage,a second tubular member mounted in said first mentioned tubular memberand having communication at its rear end with said first mentionedtubular member, and means for introducing smoke to said second mentionedtubular member, said last mentioned means comprising a cigar orcigarette carrying member, having an extension projecting into theforward end of said second mentioned tubular member.

2. A smoking device comprising an outer member having a bit and a smokepassage extending therethrough, an inner tubular member mounted in saidouter member and having communication at its rear end with said smokepassage, a second tubular member mounted within said first mentionedinner tubular member and having communication at its rear end therewith,means for introducing smoke to said second mentioned inner tubularmember, and means for causing the smoke discharged therefrom to pass tothe forward end of the first mentioned inner tubular member before saidsmoke enters said tubular member.

3. A smoking device comprising an outer member having a bit and a smokepassage extending therethrough, an inner tubular member mounted in saidouter member and having communication at its rear end with said smokepassage, a second tubular member mounted within said first mentionedinner tubular member and having communication at its rear end therewith,means for introducing smoke to said second mentioned inner tubularmember, and means for causing the smoke discharged therefrom to pass tothe forward end of the first mentioned inner tubular member before saidsmoke enters said tubular member, said last mentioned means comprisingpartitions extending between said inner tubular member.

4. A smoking device comprising an outer member having a bit and a smokepassage extending therethrough, an inner tubular member havingcommunication with said smoke passage, a tubular member within saidinner tubular member and having communication therewith, a smokefiltering medium carried in said last mentioned inner tubular member,and means for introducing smoke into said last mentioned tubular member.

5. A smoking device comprising an outer member having a bit and a smokepassage extending therethrough, an inner tubular member havingcommunication with said smoke passage, a tubular member within saidinner tubular member and having communication therewith, a smokefiltering medium carried in said last mentioned inner tubular member,and means for introducing smoke into said last mentioned tubular member.

6. A smoking device comprising an outer member having a bit and a smokepassage eX- tending therethrough, an inner tubular member havingcommunication with said smoke passage, a tubular member within saidinner tubular member and having communication therewith, a smokefiltering medium carired in said last mentioned inner tubular member,and means for introducing smoke into said last mentioned tubular member,said last mentioned means comprising a cigar or cigarette carryingmember removably carried by said outer member.

7. A smoking device comprising an outer member having a bit and a smokepassage extending therethrough, an inner tubular member havingcommunication with said smoke 1 passage, a tubular member within saidinner

